Names of famous naturalists (1 Viewer)

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

Hi everybodyyyy

Can you give me any names of naturalists from past centuries (20th, 19th), French, English, American, German, European, etc..., who contributed and proposed their own system of classification of birds. These authors may, of course, have described new taxa in their work.

I can mention Linnaeus, Gray, Kaup, Lesson, Vieillot, Bonaparte, Brisson, Wetmore (I think), Gould (?), Boddaert (?), Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Temminck...

But are there others that I forgot?

Thanks

 

[Mike Earp]

Hi everybodyyyy

Can you give me any names of naturalists from past centuries (20th, 19th), French, English, American, German, European, etc..., who contributed and proposed their own system of classification of birds. These authors may, of course, have described new taxa in their work.

I can mention Linnaeus, Gray, Kaup, Lesson, Vieillot, Bonaparte, Brisson, Wetmore (I think), Gould (?), Boddaert (?), Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Temminck...

But are there others that I forgot?

Thanks

Charles Sibley & Burt Monroe? J L Peters (or did he follow an existing authority's classification)?

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

Charles Sibley & Burt Monroe? J L Peters (or did he follow an existing authority's classification)?

Sibley and Monroe are obvious. Peters followed the classification of Wetmore (1930) it seems to me.

I am looking for older naturalists (early twentieth) more or less known. It's obvious there are very known authors from the 19th century but who escape me

 

[Mike Earp]

Sibley and Monroe are obvious. Peters followed the classification of Wetmore (1930) it seems to me.

I am looking for older naturalists (early twentieth) more or less known. It's obvious there are very known authors from the 19th century but who escape me

Have a look at Appendices 1–30 (systems of classification) in A Concise History of Ornithology (Michael Walters 2003); most if not all of the relevant material is viewable using "Look inside" on Amazon (UK).

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

A Concise History of Ornithology

If he could be in BHL.... Maybe one day

Amazon

Double damn

 

[Mike Earp]

If he could be in BHL.... Maybe one day


Double damn

Here's some classifications mentioned by Walters but not listed by you:

Gloger
Merrem
Blainville
L’Herminier
Nitzsch
Wagler
Lacépède
Illiger
Tschudi
Cuvier
Boie
Hogg
Huxley
Sundevall
Lilljeborg
Reichenow
Fürbringer
Gadow

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

Here's some classifications mentioned by Walters but not listed by you:

Gloger
Merrem
Blainville
L’Herminier
Nitzsch
Wagler
Lacépède
Illiger
Tschudi
Cuvier
Boie
Hogg
Huxley
Sundevall
Lilljeborg
Reichenow
Fürbringer
Gadow

Merciiii !! 😃😃

 

[JustinJansen]

Brisson & Buffon?

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

Brisson & Buffon?

Yep, especially for Brisson 😊😊 But Buffon was not a big fan of the Linnaean system which he found too rigid, academic. Hence the fact that Buffon used only French names and rejected Latin binomials. I'm not sure he made a contribution to the classification of birds

 

[Melanie]

George Robert Gray

A List of Genera of Birds

A List Of The Genera Of Birds, With An Indication Of The Typical Species Of Each Genus

books.google.de

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

George Robert Gray

A List of Genera of Birds

A List Of The Genera Of Birds, With An Indication Of The Typical Species Of Each Genus

books.google.de

Given in the first comment 😘